Secretary Clinton’s remarks came at a State Department celebration of the “15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development,” the 1994 United Nations summit in Cairo, where abortion policies were the major flashpoint. Addressing supporters in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin Room, Secretary Clinton said:
This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. [Applause.] The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That’s the largest allocation in more than a decade — since we last had a Democratic president, I might add. [Applause.]
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